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Please state your name, date and age.
My name is Tesfabirhan Mangistu. My age, I’m 19. Today’s date is December 6, 2023.
Okay, so the first question I would like to ask you is, what do you remember from your first days being in the US, and what was different?
So, I remember landing in the airport, getting out the airplane. I was like, yo, it’s hot. It was super hot. I came, like, in August, I think. Uh…oh, something that was different – I didn’t expect to meet a lot of people that are from where I’m from. There was a lot of Ethiopians in the airport. And yeah, [inaudible].
What were some things that were new from here and wasn’t in your old country?
Well, something weird I noticed was like, where I’m from there’s not a lot of women who drive cars, even ride bikes and stuff. But here I noticed, there’s actually lots – probably more than men, women who drive and do anything a man can do.
It’s pretty different.
Yeah.
And what was the journey like?
You mean like…[sighs] It was tough, a little bit. Like it was a lot of process. It was tiring, you know. I remember we needed money. We couldn’t really get it, and then we had to borrow money. It was kind of tough.
It was hard?
Yes.
